There are more factors to Moore's Law then just how many transistors can be put on piece of silicon. It's also based on how fast:
* Motherboards are created to use the new higher speed processor
* RAM bandwidth (compare SIMMs performance to DIMMs)
* Software that utilizes the newer/more advanced features (8bit vs 16bit vs 32bit vs 64bit)
* Additional load placed on a processor by a new GUI's look feel (eye candy slows your machine down)
* Lack of advancement of storage devices (slow drives = slow machine)
* Lack of advancement of IO ports and devices (My ISA video card isnâ(TM)t as fast as my PCI card)
Processors do get faster. Nevertheless, other factors limit them.
Try this. Compare the startup time of a fresh install of Windows 95c to a fresh install of Windows XP on the same hardware. You will find that the 95 system is much faster then the XP startup because there isn't nearly as much OS baggage slowing it down.
Rael: No DNA test for baby Eve http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/01/03/clone.claim s/ Sect leader vows to guard identity of alleged human clone
SHERBROOKE, Quebec (CNN) --A company founded by members of a sect that believes mankind was created by extraterrestrials says what it calls the first human clone will not undergo testing to verify her genetic makeup.
The head of the Raelian movement, who calls himself "Rael," said Thursday that he has told Clonaid's leader not to perform DNA tests on the infant girl, nicknamed "Eve."
Appearing on CNN's "Crossfire," Rael said he had spoken with Clonaid CEO Brigitte Boisselier and told her, "If there is any risk that this baby is taken away from the family, it is better to lose your credibility; don't do the testing."
He added: "I think she agrees with me."
Boisselier, a bishop in the Raelians, has claimed that a second cloned baby is expected to be born in Europe before Sunday, but she declined to name the country.
Clonaid had previously said Eve was to undergo DNA testing this week. Such a test would prove or disprove the company's claim that Eve is a genetic duplicate of her mother. Clonaid did not return calls seeking comment late Thursday.
Rael said he made the decision after a "judge in Florida signed a paper saying that the baby Eve should be taken from the family, from her mother."
However, no Florida judge has made such a ruling. A hearing date has been set in Broward County Circuit Court for January 22 on a lawsuit filed by attorney Bernard Siegel, who wants a legal guardian appointed for the baby girl.
If the child's mother does not appear for the hearing, the court could conceivably order that the baby be taken away. The court could also delay any decision or rule that it doesn't have jurisdiction over the case.
Clonaid, the company founded by members of the Raelian movement, had announced that the baby was born outside the United States on December 26, and said she would be brought to the United States on Monday. However, it is not known if that ever took place.
The baby's whereabouts have not been revealed, nor has the birth been independently confirmed. Clonaid has said Eve was born to a 31-year-old American woman. 'A rogue organization'
Siegel said Rael's comments seemed to indicate the Raelians think "that they don't have to answer to the law, which says to me that this is a rogue organization."
"I want the whereabouts of this alleged child to be made public," he said.
Noting that there has been no ruling yet, Siegel said, "I guess [Rael is] a better space alien than he is a lawyer. If my lawsuit has in fact called their bluff, then so be it."
Rael, former French journalist Claude Vorilhon, contends human life resulted from extraterrestrial genetic engineering and argues that cloning is the key to eternal life.
Will the public get a chance to see the baby soon?
"I don't think so," Rael said in the "Crossfire" interview.
At another point, he was asked if his group had simply gotten away with a great publicity stunt. Rael, speaking from Canada via satellite, said his earpiece was having technical difficulties.
"I am so sorry, but the sound is so bad. I cannot hear anything," he said.
He also said his Raelian movement is "completely separate" from Clonaid.
BMX XXX - Boobs in a kid's game while biking just doesn't work
Dr. Muto - Medicore concept, poor game play
Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions - Just a bad port
Virtua Striker 2002 - Sega ussually makes great soccer games but this one is just bad. Bad control with medicore graphics.
Universal Studios Park Adventure - What the heck is this game about? To many poorly strung together bad minigames.
Tetris Worlds - Lets rehash a licence that a million or so parents will buy so that they can have Tetris on thier kid's new gaming system.
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly - Bad use of a franchise with a story that doesn't standup to the slightest bit of logic. Example: Super smart dragonflys that can't follow a simple path back home so you have to go out and save them.
[Warning: I was sick and tired when I wrote this. Some sentence structure and spelling maybe screwed up.]
Everything you experience(sight, smell, sound, taste, touch, internal biological stats, and thoughts) is placed into a biological memory cache. You're not conscience that this memory cache is happening.
Your brain selectively places about 1-10% of the information from your memory into your short term memory. Your body reports so much information in just a second that your mind has to select the information to spend the cycles to commit to any kind of memory. Your body at full awareness(aka Fight or Flight mode) is estimated to report about 17 terrabytes of analog information within a second.
Next your mind selects the information from your short term memory that should be placed into your long term memory. Depending on your concentration and/or emotional levels determains the amount of information that is placed into your long term memory. Higher concentration and/or emotional levels are placed in more detailed into your memory. Example: Concentrating on homework will let you remember it. Flying through homework will have a lower priority level and will ussually be forgot. Fun times are remembered better then dull times. Running from a guy you shooting at your may place a higher level on the running then remembering that your running.
Finally you build an index by topical association of the new information for your long term memory. Example: Adding and subtracting are placed indexed under Math. Linux and BSD news would be indexed under the topic of Kewl for most Slashdot readers.
The reason we forget is simple: - Something is not thought to be important enough to be placed into your long term memory. Example: A phone number you will only call once in your life. - You are improperly indexing your information. Example: You remember a class by how boring it is, not what was actually taught in it.
Most 'Get a Great Memory' programs work by teaching you to relax and let the memories flow and re-index your old memories. Some memory programs work by teaching you ways of indexing or associating new information.
Generally you have to be 2 years olds to remember anything. Up until that age you do not have enough experience to know which information to commit into your long term and then to build a proper index. Basic biologically instilled emotionaly responses to give us the base build a usable mind.
Google will definately see the hits drop. Yahoo is one of the largest search engines and portal systems out there. However with new features like the Froogle engine coming out Google will be on solid foundation.
Reference Links: froogle.google.com - Search most online shopping cart systems google.com - Expansive search engine and web archive yahoo.com - A site that began as a search engine based on human rating, now is a megaportal for all things internet.
Yesterday we were talking about using IDE drives as long term backup media. Why not vynal?
They holdup well with reasonable care. Many jukeboxs are still playing records from the 50's. They are not effected by magnetic field. They also take stratched better the cd's and dvd's.
I would love to backup a gig to a 45.
If you think and 45 is a gun, your too young to understand this post.
Lots of voice mail systems too. Though lately NT/2000 (blech) have popular. Stupid Dialogic. porting their API to win32 just so they could "sell more" and "make money"! What's this world coming to!;)
I've been predicting a Navi/SE Lain like universal network for some time. I wasn't really expecting though for another 5-7 years. Of course it may take that long to work out the bugs.
This has been out for years. Just run an MP3 or OGG streaming server like Icecast, Shoutcast or SimpleServe Shout. You can hear the stream degrade or improve as through-put changes. Plus most streaming server have a status window that will show you how your connection is doing. If you have good sound quality you know you have a good connection.
Until you start to communicate with something other then words, you will always have the same basic patterns of communications. Voice is only pitch variation and volume variations. Thatâ(TM)s it, just two factors.
Yes, you can encrypt a voice message. You can also encrypt a text message. Your voice will always remain the same. You text message may be UPPERCASE, lowercase, a MiX of the TWo, typed in l33t, desrever(reversed), or domo arigoto (a different language). But 'Hi, I'm here, Send supplies' will always be 'Hi, I'm here. Send supplies'.
Encryption is not a magic bullet. 'Encryption sucks.' ALL Voices have ALL the same constant factors. Any constant is a perfect hook for a hacker to latch onto.
Could it be that the reason we donâ(TM)t have any information is because we donâ(TM)t want others to have our information?
If you are Sarah Lee, do you want Betty Crocker to know how you make your world famous cheesecake? Betty could get with Uncle Ben and make a similar version of your cheesecake. Ben and Betty could possibly even make a better version of your cheesecake because they now have your recipe and their old R&D from other tasty treats attempts.
In short, not everything is open source. Not recipes, nor military secrets. Is it dinner time yet?
I'm going to dub this the 'Laser Phone'. The Laser Phone will not be made for general public use. Laser Phones will be made for military and corporate entities that require ultra secure communications.
You maybe asking: âoeWhy would you need such a clunky method of communication? Line of site is not practical.â
The answer is very simple: Supercomputers and triangulation.
You see any voice communication has certain pitch and volume amplitude modulations. Pitch and volume amplitude modulations are part language and part human physiology. No matter how you scramble and encode the communication the human voice will always have certain keys that can be easily discerned in a conversation.
An enemy can easily grab and record a radio signal. Then the digitally recorded file can be feed in a Beowulf cluster of cheap computers. That data can within a few minutes can decode your voice and thus get your tactical information.
Another advantage of optical communication is that it is almost untraceable. Anytime you use a radio you sending out a beacon saying, "I'm right here; bomb the snot out of me!" An enemy can use simple triangulation to locate you.
A Laser Phone will be virtually impossible to intercept, track, and decode.
BTW: Anyone remembers those World War I movies where the soldiers would use mirrors to send Morse code message?
I'm not talking 802.11, but miltary grade Spread Spectrum. It would cost a lot less then laying new copper. And if some a$@hole inadvertantly starts a DOS attack you could just flip off the main antena array at your NOC for 10 minutes and let the network reset itself. Also throttle your nodes to say 10 mbit. That way one node can't take down your entire network.
If a storm or other activity takes out the antena array you still have the old copper. Keep a switch(physical switch, not hub like switch) so that you could walk over to a pannel a switch your node over to copper in a jiff. If they both fail then go carrier pigeon, CB's, or cellphones. Nothing like a good old analog message in a pinch.
Some mentioned earlier on this thread jokingly about making a super fast computer based on old architecture.
Has anyone actually done that? Has anyone actually taken say, a Tandy Color Computer 3's hardware and boosted it up to something approaching our current standards? I'm not talking emulation on a x86 platform. I mean fully working with a processor with a native OS.
Those architecture are so simple, with kernels so small you could print the hex binary out on a couple of pages. Imaging how fast an accounting package would be on a 1 gHz, or even a 200 mHz.
I know this maybe off topic, but if someone could resurrect a 12-bit system to a more modern standard, why not other system. DOS is still viable in certain circumstances, why not these platforms.
Think about an 8-bit controller with a serial connection, flash memory, and a RCA video out jack that is based on a C64. There is a TON of documentation for programming on something like that. Linux guruâ(TM)s could use C/C++ and Windows users could use Commodore BASIC.
We are talking Buckeye Telesystems here. Buckeye Telesystems is where you can buy a 3 mbit connect for an extra $20/month but you're still only guaranteed the 1.5 mbit rate. Toledo isn't called 'The Biggest Small Town in the Nation' for nothing.
Toledo is nothing but a bunch of bickering children who don't care how their action make Toledo look because daddy willed them some money.
Hell, the owners of Buckeye Telesystems got some many people mad at then on stunts like this that they had to move out of state and manage their services (fiber, wireless, newspaper, security, telephone, and dialup) by proxy.
Give us our damn money or we send this guy after you!
It seems that prices are copyrighted. It's just a matter of time before someone like Walmart sues anyone whose prices end in.99. An explanation of this.sig is beyond the scope of this text.
This ActivGlass as it called does one better the this coating because not only does it repel water, it also uses sunlight to kernel up dirt so when that when it rains that dirt just runs off.
Slashdot Mirror
There are more factors to Moore's Law then just how many transistors can be put on piece of silicon. It's also based on how fast:
* Motherboards are created to use the new higher speed processor
* RAM bandwidth (compare SIMMs performance to DIMMs)
* Software that utilizes the newer/more advanced features (8bit vs 16bit vs 32bit vs 64bit)
* Additional load placed on a processor by a new GUI's look feel (eye candy slows your machine down)
* Lack of advancement of storage devices (slow drives = slow machine)
* Lack of advancement of IO ports and devices (My ISA video card isnâ(TM)t as fast as my PCI card)
Processors do get faster. Nevertheless, other factors limit them.
Try this. Compare the startup time of a fresh install of Windows 95c to a fresh install of Windows XP on the same hardware. You will find that the 95 system is much faster then the XP startup because there isn't nearly as much OS baggage slowing it down.
Rael: No DNA test for baby Evem s/
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/01/03/clone.clai
Sect leader vows to guard identity of alleged human clone
SHERBROOKE, Quebec (CNN) --A company founded by members of a sect that believes mankind was created by extraterrestrials says what it calls the first human clone will not undergo testing to verify her genetic makeup.
The head of the Raelian movement, who calls himself "Rael," said Thursday that he has told Clonaid's leader not to perform DNA tests on the infant girl, nicknamed "Eve."
Appearing on CNN's "Crossfire," Rael said he had spoken with Clonaid CEO Brigitte Boisselier and told her, "If there is any risk that this baby is taken away from the family, it is better to lose your credibility; don't do the testing."
He added: "I think she agrees with me."
Boisselier, a bishop in the Raelians, has claimed that a second cloned baby is expected to be born in Europe before Sunday, but she declined to name the country.
Clonaid had previously said Eve was to undergo DNA testing this week. Such a test would prove or disprove the company's claim that Eve is a genetic duplicate of her mother. Clonaid did not return calls seeking comment late Thursday.
Rael said he made the decision after a "judge in Florida signed a paper saying that the baby Eve should be taken from the family, from her mother."
However, no Florida judge has made such a ruling. A hearing date has been set in Broward County Circuit Court for January 22 on a lawsuit filed by attorney Bernard Siegel, who wants a legal guardian appointed for the baby girl.
If the child's mother does not appear for the hearing, the court could conceivably order that the baby be taken away. The court could also delay any decision or rule that it doesn't have jurisdiction over the case.
Clonaid, the company founded by members of the Raelian movement, had announced that the baby was born outside the United States on December 26, and said she would be brought to the United States on Monday. However, it is not known if that ever took place.
The baby's whereabouts have not been revealed, nor has the birth been independently confirmed. Clonaid has said Eve was born to a 31-year-old American woman.
'A rogue organization'
Siegel said Rael's comments seemed to indicate the Raelians think "that they don't have to answer to the law, which says to me that this is a rogue organization."
"I want the whereabouts of this alleged child to be made public," he said.
Noting that there has been no ruling yet, Siegel said, "I guess [Rael is] a better space alien than he is a lawyer. If my lawsuit has in fact called their bluff, then so be it."
Rael, former French journalist Claude Vorilhon, contends human life resulted from extraterrestrial genetic engineering and argues that cloning is the key to eternal life.
Will the public get a chance to see the baby soon?
"I don't think so," Rael said in the "Crossfire" interview.
At another point, he was asked if his group had simply gotten away with a great publicity stunt. Rael, speaking from Canada via satellite, said his earpiece was having technical difficulties.
"I am so sorry, but the sound is so bad. I cannot hear anything," he said.
He also said his Raelian movement is "completely separate" from Clonaid.
Recent bad games:
BMX XXX - Boobs in a kid's game while biking just doesn't work
Dr. Muto - Medicore concept, poor game play
Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions - Just a bad port
Virtua Striker 2002 - Sega ussually makes great soccer games but this one is just bad. Bad control with medicore graphics.
Universal Studios Park Adventure - What the heck is this game about? To many poorly strung together bad minigames.
Tetris Worlds - Lets rehash a licence that a million or so parents will buy so that they can have Tetris on thier kid's new gaming system.
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly - Bad use of a franchise with a story that doesn't standup to the slightest bit of logic. Example: Super smart dragonflys that can't follow a simple path back home so you have to go out and save them.
[Warning: I was sick and tired when I wrote this. Some sentence structure and spelling maybe screwed up.]
Everything you experience(sight, smell, sound, taste, touch, internal biological stats, and thoughts) is placed into a biological memory cache. You're not conscience that this memory cache is happening.
Your brain selectively places about 1-10% of the information from your memory into your short term memory. Your body reports so much information in just a second that your mind has to select the information to spend the cycles to commit to any kind of memory. Your body at full awareness(aka Fight or Flight mode) is estimated to report about 17 terrabytes of analog information within a second.
Next your mind selects the information from your short term memory that should be placed into your long term memory. Depending on your concentration and/or emotional levels determains the amount of information that is placed into your long term memory. Higher concentration and/or emotional levels are placed in more detailed into your memory.
Example: Concentrating on homework will let you remember it. Flying through homework will have a lower priority level and will ussually be forgot. Fun times are remembered better then dull times. Running from a guy you shooting at your may place a higher level on the running then remembering that your running.
Finally you build an index by topical association of the new information for your long term memory.
Example: Adding and subtracting are placed indexed under Math. Linux and BSD news would be indexed under the topic of Kewl for most Slashdot readers.
The reason we forget is simple:
- Something is not thought to be important enough to be placed into your long term memory. Example: A phone number you will only call once in your life.
- You are improperly indexing your information. Example: You remember a class by how boring it is, not what was actually taught in it.
Most 'Get a Great Memory' programs work by teaching you to relax and let the memories flow and re-index your old memories. Some memory programs work by teaching you ways of indexing or associating new information.
Generally you have to be 2 years olds to remember anything. Up until that age you do not have enough experience to know which information to commit into your long term and then to build a proper index. Basic biologically instilled emotionaly responses to give us the base build a usable mind.
I don't think google will notice this that much.
Google will definately see the hits drop. Yahoo is one of the largest search engines and portal systems out there. However with new features like the Froogle engine coming out Google will be on solid foundation.
Reference Links:
froogle.google.com - Search most online shopping cart systems
google.com - Expansive search engine and web archive
yahoo.com - A site that began as a search engine based on human rating, now is a megaportal for all things internet.
Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy.
Umm, the computer runs at like 1 mhz tops and is using like 3 volts of power. I'm sure you want a computer like that on your desktop.
That's alright.
I'll be broadcasting my own analog stuff on the unlicensed spectrum and bypass digital all together.
Could you post the link?
Yesterday we were talking about using IDE drives as long term backup media. Why not vynal?
They holdup well with reasonable care. Many jukeboxs are still playing records from the 50's. They are not effected by magnetic field. They also take stratched better the cd's and dvd's.
I would love to backup a gig to a 45.
If you think and 45 is a gun, your too young to understand this post.
Lots of voice mail systems too. Though lately NT/2000 (blech) have popular. Stupid Dialogic. porting their API to win32 just so they could "sell more" and "make money"! What's this world coming to! ;)
So why not ports this stuff to Linux or *BSD?
Sorry if this is rehashing an old topic, but I was looking for advice on how to try to get a refund for the copy of XP that is coming with the laptop.
Sell it on E-bay to someone who wants it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the company that bought the rights to build PVR out of the Sega Dreamcast chipsets?
I remember seeing some prototypes last spring.
>You and William Gibson, eh?
;)
You hack the Gibson? your 3v1l l33t!
Sorry, just had to say it
I've been predicting a Navi/SE Lain like universal network for some time. I wasn't really expecting though for another 5-7 years. Of course it may take that long to work out the bugs.
Viva la Lain!
This has been out for years. Just run an MP3 or OGG streaming server like Icecast, Shoutcast or SimpleServe Shout. You can hear the stream degrade or improve as through-put changes. Plus most streaming server have a status window that will show you how your connection is doing. If you have good sound quality you know you have a good connection.
Why do they make simple things complicated?
Icecast: http://www.icecast.org
ShoutCast: http://www.shoutcast.com
SimpleServer Shout: http://www.analogx.com
I disagree.
Until you start to communicate with something other then words, you will always have the same basic patterns of communications. Voice is only pitch variation and volume variations. Thatâ(TM)s it, just two factors.
Yes, you can encrypt a voice message. You can also encrypt a text message. Your voice will always remain the same. You text message may be UPPERCASE, lowercase, a MiX of the TWo, typed in l33t, desrever(reversed), or domo arigoto (a different language). But 'Hi, I'm here, Send supplies' will always be 'Hi, I'm here. Send supplies'.
Encryption is not a magic bullet. 'Encryption sucks.' ALL Voices have ALL the same constant factors. Any constant is a perfect hook for a hacker to latch onto.
The article doesn't explain how this might work.
Could it be that the reason we donâ(TM)t have any information is because we donâ(TM)t want others to have our information?
If you are Sarah Lee, do you want Betty Crocker to know how you make your world famous cheesecake? Betty could get with Uncle Ben and make a similar version of your cheesecake. Ben and Betty could possibly even make a better version of your cheesecake because they now have your recipe and their old R&D from other tasty treats attempts.
In short, not everything is open source. Not recipes, nor military secrets. Is it dinner time yet?
I'm going to dub this the 'Laser Phone'. The Laser Phone will not be made for general public use. Laser Phones will be made for military and corporate entities that require ultra secure communications.
You maybe asking: âoeWhy would you need such a clunky method of communication? Line of site is not practical.â
The answer is very simple: Supercomputers and triangulation.
You see any voice communication has certain pitch and volume amplitude modulations. Pitch and volume amplitude modulations are part language and part human physiology. No matter how you scramble and encode the communication the human voice will always have certain keys that can be easily discerned in a conversation.
An enemy can easily grab and record a radio signal. Then the digitally recorded file can be feed in a Beowulf cluster of cheap computers. That data can within a few minutes can decode your voice and thus get your tactical information.
Another advantage of optical communication is that it is almost untraceable. Anytime you use a radio you sending out a beacon saying, "I'm right here; bomb the snot out of me!" An enemy can use simple triangulation to locate you.
A Laser Phone will be virtually impossible to intercept, track, and decode.
BTW: Anyone remembers those World War I movies where the soldiers would use mirrors to send Morse code message?
Go Wireless, Use copper for Backup
I'm not talking 802.11, but miltary grade Spread Spectrum. It would cost a lot less then laying new copper. And if some a$@hole inadvertantly starts a DOS attack you could just flip off the main antena array at your NOC for 10 minutes and let the network reset itself. Also throttle your nodes to say 10 mbit. That way one node can't take down your entire network.
If a storm or other activity takes out the antena array you still have the old copper. Keep a switch(physical switch, not hub like switch) so that you could walk over to a pannel a switch your node over to copper in a jiff. If they both fail then go carrier pigeon, CB's, or cellphones. Nothing like a good old analog message in a pinch.
Don Bluth is so pround now.
Some mentioned earlier on this thread jokingly about making a super fast computer based on old architecture.
Has anyone actually done that? Has anyone actually taken say, a Tandy Color Computer 3's hardware and boosted it up to something approaching our current standards? I'm not talking emulation on a x86 platform. I mean fully working with a processor with a native OS.
Those architecture are so simple, with kernels so small you could print the hex binary out on a couple of pages. Imaging how fast an accounting package would be on a 1 gHz, or even a 200 mHz.
I know this maybe off topic, but if someone could resurrect a 12-bit system to a more modern standard, why not other system. DOS is still viable in certain circumstances, why not these platforms.
Think about an 8-bit controller with a serial connection, flash memory, and a RCA video out jack that is based on a C64. There is a TON of documentation for programming on something like that. Linux guruâ(TM)s could use C/C++ and Windows users could use Commodore BASIC.
Oh well thatâ(TM)s just my ramblings.
We are talking Buckeye Telesystems here. Buckeye Telesystems is where you can buy a 3 mbit connect for an extra $20/month but you're still only guaranteed the 1.5 mbit rate. Toledo isn't called 'The Biggest Small Town in the Nation' for nothing.
Toledo is nothing but a bunch of bickering children who don't care how their action make Toledo look because daddy willed them some money.
Hell, the owners of Buckeye Telesystems got some many people mad at then on stunts like this that they had to move out of state and manage their services (fiber, wireless, newspaper, security, telephone, and dialup) by proxy.
Give us our damn money or we send this guy after you!
.99. .sig is beyond the scope of this text.
It seems that prices are copyrighted. It's just a matter of time before someone like Walmart sues anyone whose prices end in
An explanation of this
OS2 Warp?
Self-Cleaning Glass is already out. Pilkington has had it for about a year and a half.
This ActivGlass as it called does one better the this coating because not only does it repel water, it also uses sunlight to kernel up dirt so when that when it rains that dirt just runs off.